This new collection of short stories from T. C. Boyle finds him at hismercurial best. Inventive wickedly funny sometimes disturbing these arestories about dropo... » 

This new collection of short stories from T. C. Boyle finds him at hismercurial best. Inventive wickedly funny sometimes disturbing these arestories about dropouts deadbeats and kooks. Take the man who shares hisapartment with a wildcat won in a drunken bet the drivetime shock jockhallucinating from sleep deprivation for a publicity stunt the suburban womanwho joins a pack of dogs eating rabbits and baying at the moon. With a uniquedeftness of touch and a keen eye for the telling detail Boyle has mapped thestrange underworld of America. «